Ya know, not everyone down there (this is home we are talking about) is a Bush lover, actually I seem to remember a story about a kid who committed suicide at ground Zero as a protest to bush’s re-election, he was from Georgia.
Russell Holliman over at mobilepodcast.org had an interesting point (you will have to listen to the podcast for details) about the county (I think it was the county) of the guy who posted some rant about the south.
I have little to no accent, consider myself to be right down the middle (“socially liberal, fiscally conservative”), and most of the time people can’t figure out where in the US I am from, but as soon as they here I am from the south they let into me, about the conservative, redneck (its not bad to be a redneck per se), beer swilling, truck-with-gun-rack driving, pigs… Yeah the Bushies are the majority in the south, the recent election is a very painful reminder, but the “more-holy-than-thou because I am ‘northern’” attitude just doesn’t work.
The south has plenty of redeeming features about it that are time and time again overlooked (and while *I* think it is a good thing we lost, I will remind the northerners that we tried to leave/split [and leave you to your own ideas/etc] but you guys didn’t seem to want that). If you want to call yourself some “open minded liberal/democrat” then try seeing the south (and the rest of the world) how it really is, and not as the TV media would have you see it.
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